Comments on: Who is the Blog Architect?

By: architekt

architekt — Sat, 12 Jan 2008 17:44:58 +0000

Many blog archives lack of a search function and most are quite unorganized – data is not useful if you can’t find it ;-)

By: Website updates (finally!) — This and that

Website updates (finally!) — This and that — Sun, 09 Dec 2007 22:25:53 +0000

[...] my archive musings I’ve finally updated my archives page. I went with the Smart Archives Plugin; I thought it [...]

By: Best Blogging Achievement » Inspiration Bit

Best Blogging Achievement » Inspiration Bit — Sat, 01 Dec 2007 02:54:40 +0000

[...] Kristarella has mentioned Inspiration Bit among other several well-known and respectful blogs that she researched for her study of the blog architecture, I felt very honoured, of course, but [...]

By: kristarella

kristarella — Tue, 20 Nov 2007 05:22:58 +0000

Ben – once I saw the SRG plugin I recognised that what you had there were dates (because the plugin’s archive page had both dates and page counts). Otherwise I think it’s pretty easy to navigate. I like it. :)

Moshin – I’m currently going through my old posts and updating tags and categories. I could very well delete a lot of them because they’re drivel, but I’ll keep them for sentimental reasons. :P So I will be merging and deleting some categories. Haha, you did say “categories” 5 times, but it was perfectly readable – no stuttering what-so-ever!

By: Mohsin

Mohsin — Mon, 19 Nov 2007 15:44:14 +0000

I wouldn’t recommend removing categories from the home page altogether, but you should consider merging the less important categories with the categories that represent your blog better, e.g. the categories that you hardly post in anymore should be merged with frequently updated categories.

Did I use the word ‘category’ too many times? :P

By: Ben

Ben — Mon, 19 Nov 2007 13:04:38 +0000

Interesting post :)

Currently I use the old SRG archives plugin for my archives but I am intending to restructure them to, hopefully, make them easier to navigate.

By: kristarella

kristarella — Mon, 19 Nov 2007 08:43:32 +0000

You’re welcome inspirationbit. You can probably thank LaurenMarie – she speaks highly of you. :)

Interesting to know that you used a plugin. So far some of my favourite archive set-ups seem to use plugins. I was hoping to find a way to use the page template functionality – then I’m not dependent on a plugin that may not be compatible with future versions etc.

I agree, I think popular posts and recommended posts are a really good way to help people navigate your articles. My thoughts are that those types of lists belong on the front and post pages because they’re valuable links. Then category and monthly lists could go on the archive page, which you could instruct search engines to not index, or index less often.

By: inspirationbit

inspirationbit — Mon, 19 Nov 2007 08:23:03 +0000

First of all, Kristarella, thanks for including my blog among all those popular/respectful blogs. That’s quite an honour.

I think I approached my archives the lazy way, by simply installing a plugin, written by Ronalfy that creates an easy-to-follow Sitemap of your blog. I myself am still thinking about various ways for promoting and displaying my old posts. I think the key is to not only rely on Archives page, but use other features as well – like dedicated posts, Popular posts, Recommended posts, etc.